Update: "aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade"
fixed it. But I would heartily recommend against updating gnome in isolation, that is DO NOT do the following!!!: http://wiki.debian.org/Gnome#task and follow the instructions apt-get install aptitude tasksel tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install It can break your machine. > > > --- On Sat, 5/26/12, Linda R <lindamarce...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > From: Linda R <lindamarce...@yahoo.com> > > Subject: Attempt to update Gnome on Debian kills > system > > To: sub...@bugs.debian.org > > Date: Saturday, May 26, 2012, 12:52 PM > > Package: gnome > > Version: 2.30 > > Severity: critical > > > > I'm not sure which part of Gnome the problem is in, > because > > it is a very > > general problem. > > > > I wrote a request for enhancement bug for Gnome about > the > > lack of good > > documentation for setting up dual monitors, and I > offered to > > help fix it. > > Someone replied that this was because I was using an > older > > version of Gnome > > (2.30), but the new one (3) was better. I found that > > the current stable > > version of Debian (Squeeze) uses Gnome 2.30. I asked > > why this wouldn't be > > fixed in 2.30 since I guess if this is the version of > Gnome > > included in the > > stable version of Debian, it would help a lot of users > to > > have this info. He said he knew that more people > used > > Gnome 3 because of his knowledge of > > statistics and experience. I should still update Gnome > by > > finding instructions on a site specific to my > > distribution. Okay. > > > > So I went here > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Gnome#task > > > > and followed the instructions > > > > apt-get install aptitude tasksel > > tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install > > > > attempting to upgrade to Gnome 3. > > > > After this, I rebooted and found that it was still > Gnome > > 2.30. Also, > > everything was going very slowly, the terminal window > took a > > long time to open, there were errors like CPU > overheated, > > throttled, Mixerapplet error, inode errors, etc. I > > rebooted numerous times with progressively worse > results, to > > the point that I wondered if it was a problem with the > > hardware, like the CPU or fan. I wrote back to this > > person asking about this problem, but he said he knew > > nothing about Debian. > > > > Anyways, it looks like I may have to wipe out my > entire > > system, losing > > applications and personal files, and try to reinstall > it -- > > not just Gnome, but all of Debian Linux. The last > > thing I am trying was someone else's advice to do an > > "aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade" to > see if > > any newer packages solve the problem. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
